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Memorandum of Conversation, by the Assistant Secretary of State for United Nations Affairs ( Key )

licy in West Africa and that they maintain the same pace of political development. Without wishing to criticize British policy in this area, Ambassador Bonnet said that the French were not persuaded that the British experiments in the Gold Coast and Nigeria would be entirely successful. They would prefer to wait and see how they worked out before imitating them. Moreover, conditions were not the same in all West African territories. French Togoland, for example, was not enjoying the kind of prosperity which had so materially helped the Gold Coast and British Togoland along the road to self-gov…